I’ve taken a long absence from the beloved comfort of this blog.  Not that I haven’t wanted to sit down and live in my head……write words that I fuss over and then, when I hit “publish”, panic like a young mom dropping her kid off for his first day of preschool.   I always want to do that.  Over the past few months, though, my life has been consumed with sunshine, family, and work that actually earns money.

But now the rain is here, I’m in modified hermit mode, and, after not seeing any concerts since August, it just so happens that, for the first 2 weeks of November, I have tickets to four different shows. I’m officially calling it Show-vember, and have decided it’s a sign to come home to my little corner of cyberspace.

It’s always interesting how concerts end up getting lumped closely together for me.  I can go for a few months without a show, and then it seems that all the shows I want to see are bunched together within a short time frame.  I take them on like a musical triathlon – proper pacing being of utmost importance.  My personal long-standing record was established in 2001:  three different shows in three states, within the span of a week (if it matters:  Ben Harper in Seattle, Dave Matthews Band in Las Vegas, and Sting in Chicago.  Ben is the only one I listen to anymore).

And so I’m gearing up for some great music from artists that I love, in a month that thumbs its nose at dreary weather with many fabulous things:  my birthday, Thanksgiving and the Apple Cup (“We’ve Got a Thing…”). And now, also……The Black Keys, Ben Gibbard, Chadwick Stokes and the White Buffalo.  Happy Show-vember to me (and also to you….go to a show, I promise it will make November bearable)!